The EFF ﻿this weekend are also busy with their final election rally in the final push to get their voters and the ‘undecideds’ to head out to the voting booth.

BEE VS RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

The economy is at centre-stage in the manifestos of all political parties leading up to the 8 May election date with particular focus on matters involving radical economic transformation, land expropriation without compensation, affirmative action and structural reform. A large part of today’s rallies by the ANC and EFF will be focusing on that. Research conducted by MarkData takes a look at BEE and RET and how the EFF and ANC supporters feel towards each policy.

Percentage of each party supporters polled that want to see BEE policies relaxed.

Those supporting (yellow) and opposing (purple) RET

THE BUSINESS END OF THE RALLIES

Today, two of the major political parties are holding their last election rallies. The ANC and EFF are attempting to pull in as many supports as they can, the ruling party saying that will have 100,000 people at their Siyanqoba Rally. You can watch that LIVE on DStv403 and streaming on our website now…

Whether it is BEE, Radical Economic Transformation, Affirmative Action or any other employment policy, it all comes down to jobs. Particularly for those who don’t have one. MarkData research unpacked numbers according the major parties and supporters impressions of their employment policies. Dr. Sithembile Mbete, a political scientist, from the University of Pretoria and RW Johnson, political analyst and author unpack that data with Vuyo Mvoko.

The Race | Part 2 | Employment | 22 April 2019

TOP QUOTES FROM POLITICAL LEADERS

In the course leading up to South Africa’s sixth democratic election, political parties have been pulling all the stops to garner voter support, resulting in some of the most revered and controversial quotes from the country’s top leaders making headlines.